Affrica

See also: affrica

Old English

Etymology

From Latin Africa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑf.fri.kɑ/

Proper noun

Affrica f

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
2. (historical) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Affrica ⁊ Asia hiera landġemircu onginnað of Alexandria, Egypta burg...

     The boundaries between Africa and Asia begin in the Egyptian city of Alexandria...

Derived terms

• Afrisċ

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “Affrica”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Welsh

Alternative forms

• yr Affrig (literary)

Etymology

From Latin Africa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈafrɪka/
• Rhymes: -ɪka

Proper noun

Affrica f

1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
2. (historical) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)

Derived terms

• Affricaidd, Affricanaidd (“African”)
• De Affrica (“South Africa”)

See also

continents: cyfandiroeddedit

• Affrica
• Antarctica
• Asia
• Ewrop
• Oceania, Ynysoedd y De
• yr Amerig
  • De America
  • Gogledd America
    • Canolbarth America

• (countries of Africa) gwledydd Affrica; yr Aifft, Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Bwrcina Ffaso, Bwrwndi, Cabo Verde, Camerŵn, Cenia, Comoros, De Affrica, De Swdan, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Gini, Gini Bisaw, Gini Gyhydeddol, Gorllewin Sahara, Gweriniaeth Canolbarth Affrica, Gweriniaeth Ddemocrataidd y Congo, Gweriniaeth y Congo, Jibwti, Lesotho, Liberia, Libia, Madagasgar, Malawi, Mali, Mawrisiws, Mawritania, Moroco, Mosambic, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sambia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Simbabwe, Somalia, Swdan, Tansania, Tiwnisia, Togo, y Traeth Ifori, Tsiad, Wganda ^{(Category: cy:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

Mutation

Mutated forms of Affrica

radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
Affrica	unchanged	unchanged	Haffrica

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.